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lo the Second Chapter are contained, all the pretended 
grounds of Rearon(except thofe peculiar to ih^Hyhzoick fomj, 
direftly contrary to iheAtomick)fov the Atheift ick Hypothefis. 
As,That there is no Idea of God. Nothing can be created out of 
Nothing. The Univerfe can confift of nothing but Space and 
Body. Affertionof a Deity, arifing mecrly from the abftradk 
Names and Notions of things. No Seeing efTenially Incorrup- 
tible, becaufe Corporeal. The firft Principle, no Underftanding 
Nature. Soul and Mind begot of Senfelefs Atoms Nothing Im- 
mortal. No unmoved firft Mover. All Knowledge and Idea'?, 
junior to the World. The World 111 made. No Providence ; nor 
would it confift with theDeity.Theifm inconfiftent with Civil 
Government. Therefore all fprung from Nature and Chance. 
All which he lays dovvn fairly, and to the greateft advantage of 
the Atheift* 
The Third Chapter is an Introduftion to the confutation of 
Atheifm: containing a particular account of all the feveral 
forms of Atheifm^ And firft of the Hylozoick^ not noted by any 
Modern. f/Vy? ftarted byStratOyivi oppofition to ihtDemocritick 
Hypothefis ; and reviv'd of late by fome, fo fagacious as to fee 
that Hypothefis indefenfible, iV^jc^That before Demccritfu the 
moft ancienrv^/^<?//?/V^ Hypothefis was.the Eduflionofall things. 
Life and Underftanding it felf, out of Matter, in the way of ge- 
nerable and corruptible Qualities; which he ftyleth the i^^- 
fathian or Amximmdrun ; AmximAnder being the Author of 
it, whofefupream Deity was Infinite Matter: and who was the 
fixh Atheiftick Philofofher, Herealfoof the Atheiftick The0g(h 
nifin ; which, though it afferted Many Gods, and alfo One Su- 
pream, yer,that all were generated out of Night and Cha^s^ and 
thereinto corruptible. Bcfides thefe, of a/ii;^r/)&,which feemeth 
to be but the corraption of Suicifm ; and which he ftyleti), the 
Cofmoflajlick Form. This condudtd the whole World^not to be 
an Animal (as the Pagan X&^//?5 generally fuppofed) but robe 
One birge Plant, having an Artificial, Plaftickand Vegetable Na- 
4ure,asits higheft Principle. All the faid Forms agreeing in this, 
That^sill Animality confcious Life and Underftanding is genera- 
ted out of Senflefs Matter,and corruptible into it. Whereto he 
fubjoyns a digreffion of an Jrtficul PUJlick NAturt ; afferting, 
that it isfhelnftrumentof the Deity. Agreeable ro the fcnfe of 
beft Philofophers^ Tis no Occult quality. The Divine Art eai- 
; bodied^ 
